Va. man kills bald eagle for hunting fish in his pond

A man pleaded guilty to killing a bald eagle after it had been taking fish on his property.

Author:
Katelyn Haas

Published:
1:46 PM EDT July 11, 2017

Updated:
7:15 PM EDT July 11, 2017

A man pleaded guilty to killing a bald eagle after it had been taking fish on his property.

Allen H. Thacker, 62, shot a bald eagle down from his property after wounding it at first. According to the Virginia Department of Justice, he tried to scare the bird away by firing a warning shot. When that didn’t work, he shot the bird with a rifle.

Thacker denied it at first, but when someone said they had seen Thacker driving over the bird with his car, he admitted to shooting the bird and then running it over. His first shot to the bird wounded it, but the blunt force trauma to the eagle’s skull was fatal.